Testicle Festival Returns to Va. Square

(Updated at 4:15 p.m.) Exotic food lovers should enjoy an event taking place at the Arlington American Legion (3445 N. Washington Blvd) in Virginia Square on Saturday, May 19. The Montana State Society’s Eighth Annual Testicle Festival, dubbed “Legends of the Ball,” will be testing visitors’ gag reflexes.

The event lets attendees sample unlimited amounts of bull testicles, also called Rocky Mountain oysters. Like last year, there will be all-you-can-drink beer and Crown Royal to wash it down.

In a press release, organizers touted the event as a “unique western tradition.”

“While in D.C. people celebrate spring by posting pictures of cherry blossoms on Facebook, Montanans have a pretty unique tradition of our own,” said Montana State Society President Jed Link. “Spring is calving season out West, and that means something special in the pot come chow time.”

There will be live country music at the festival, which runs from 6:00-10:00 p.m. The first 200 people to arrive will also get a commemorative t-shirt.

Tickets can be purchased online for $25, or at the door for $30. Attendees must be at least 21.

Reminds me of my days growing up, sans the beer. We’d cut the bull calves, throw the testicles in a bucket, and take them back to the house and beg Mom to fry them up. She did not care for that. Glad Dad did not try to fry them. We could cook only oat meal and he did that religiously every morning before day light.

trulysickened

Montanans have a pretty unique tradition of our own,” said Montana State Society President Jed Link. ”Spring is calving season out West, and that means something special in the pot come chow time.”

THIS IS NOT SPECIAL IT IS SICK. YOU ARE KILLING BABY CALVES TO REMOVE THEIR TESICLES SO PEOPLE MAY CONSUME THEM. people don’t go, don’t support their stupid and cruel “tradition”. how revolting. then he goes on to promote all you can drink.

Clarendon

I’m no expert but I think the testis come from bull calves that are castrated to create steers. They aren’t killed at that point. They have some years of grazing and wondering where their junk went before they are actually killed.

I want my sack back

Hahaha!

Cow – mmm…. this is good grass, where are my balls, mmmm…. this is good grass…. where’d my nuts go??? mmmm….

CW

Unless you are typing your outraged comments on a grass-fed, self-built computer that wasn’t put together with forced labor in China, all while photosynthesizing your own sustenance, you are supporting some sort of cruelty, so stop being a hypocrite and go eat some balls.

novasteve

If you drink milk, it’s the same thing. They kill the male babies.

Carnavore

Mmmmm. Veal.

Eileen

Hey …. they are castrating the calves; they don’t kill them until they can be sold for beef .. after they inhumanely fatten them up in grain yards.

Kony Thornheiser

I hope it works out for the bouncer who stopped a guy trying to slide pass the door for an event unrelated to the TF. There was a long ID line waiting to get in the 6pm door, and after maybe 50 people had entered, this guy must have been oblivious to the process and didn’t think he needed to explain his situation. Escalation led to a takedown, which was only resolved until someone from MSS brought up a person from the other event to vouch for the gatebreaker.